Many times, the great events in this world are insignificant in heaven, and some small things that seem insignificant on earth are To cheers in heaven.
On March 26, 2016, there was a movie called "Lost at the End of the Day" that was silently released in China. It was an outdated "old movie" that was made in 2014, and it lost money in the United States that could not even recover the cost. Goods, of course, won't cause much trouble in China. The box office on the first day was 7.52 million, ranking sixth. If the starring was not Nicolas Cage, it is estimated that even this amount of money would not be sold.
However, when I sat in the movie theater and saw the film, I could feel angels cheering around me. The release of this film in China is not only a miracle, but also an epoch-making event for Chinese films. For the first time, a film with the theme and content of evangelism was allowed to be released publicly in China, where atheism is the tradition. We should remember this day. Watching the characters speak freely about God in the film, watching Christians take pride in their faith, watching John 3:16 appear (a passage that tells the essence of the gospel), watching the film use the Bible At the end of the scriptures, I was filled with a sense of happiness, and I kept praying for the people around me who were sitting in the movie theater, because they are all blessed people.
In fact, the release of this film has also been brewing for a while. In the past two years, Chinese movies have made great progress. Movies like "The Left Ear", "Pancake Man", and "Charlotte Trouble" can all see some shadows of redemption and gospel, and some foreign movies have also been approved. More and more forgiving, "The Chronicles of Narnia" cryptically hides the gospel in a fantasy story, "War Horse" has a passage in "Psalm" 23rd, but "Doomsday" is an almost pure gospel movie The release was really unexpected. We can only sigh about the tolerance of China now, while thanking and praising God. This is done by the hand of God. He loves us Chinese so much.
I also hope that everyone will continue to pray for Chinese movies, so that the screen will not always be filled with pornography, violence, brainless and funny, and let more such movies full of gospel and redemption come in. Most importantly, also ask God to raise Chinese gospel movies. , because if there is one, there will be two, and if there is two, there will be three... The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone takes and grows in the field. It was the smallest of the hundred species, but when it grew, it became larger than all the vegetables, and became a tree, and the birds of the sky came to live on its branches. (Matthew 13:31-32). You know!
Let's talk about the movie itself. The film focuses on an important moment in human history predicted by the Bible, that is, the rapture of Christians and the apocalypse. This is a very cinematic passage in the Bible: because the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a calling The voice and the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God; the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In this way, we will be with the Lord forever. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
But no one knows that day and hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. In the days before the flood, people were eating, drinking, marrying, and marrying as usual, until the day Noah entered the ark, and before they knew it, the flood came and swept them all away. So will the coming of the Son of Man. At that time, two men were in the field, one was taken and the other was left; two women were grinding the mill, one was taken and the other was left. (Matthew 24:36-41)
The movie imagines the rapture of Christians in a way of "hearing thunder in a place of silence," just like the "good" tradition of Hollywood movies, full of details of life , has a strong sense of immersion. Before being raptured, everything seemed normal. The heroine who was tired of the Christian mother came to celebrate her father's birthday, but the father cheated on her in the name of a flight mission. A writer fell in love with the heroine, and then the bustling airport, Bustling shopping malls, people "eat, drink, marry and marry", and then, without any warning, in the most shocking moment, thousands of people just disappeared and the world was thrown into chaos, as the Bible warned.
Then the captain and daughter played by Nicholas Cage began to search for the truth, only to find out that all the Christians disappeared. They all thought of the Bible, the gospel of Jesus, and the warnings and exhortations of Christian relatives and friends, but everything It was too late. After the plane finally landed after all kinds of difficulties, at the end of the movie, the three protagonists looked at the burning city in the distance, arm in arm. They knew that those Christian relatives and friends had warned them many times. The end has begun.
The future that awaits them will be the most thrilling and tragic day in human history. God's grace has left this world, and the devil can rule here as he pleases. The Bible has warned countless times that the end of the day (should be three and a half years) is coming, that is the day of God's judgment and the day of God's wrath, and each of us should tremble at this, each of us Christians. We should hold on to a heart of piety and reverence, and ask God to keep us from those days.
Friends! Brothers and sisters! Please take your family to see this soul-shaking movie! Check out this film that leads people to Christ! Paying for this film and supporting this film, I personally think that this film's interpretation of the end of the day and the rapture is basically in line with the Bible. And, all indications are that the days mentioned in the movie are not far away.
Blow your trumpets in Zion and a loud voice in my holy mountain. All the inhabitants of the kingdom shall tremble; for the day of the LORD is coming, and it is near. (Joel 2:1)
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